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AMS Chair in Sustainable Transformation to continue for another three years

In 2017, with the support of BASF Antwerp, Port of Antwerp and Randstad Belgium, AMS launched the very first Chair in Sustainable Transformation worldwide. Dr. Wayne Visser, international expert in sustainability, was appointed as chairholder. In 2020 the partnership can look back on a fruitful cooperation. So much so, that they have decided to join forces for another three years, in order to further promote sustainable transformation by awareness raising, research and co-creation.

Future roles in information security

We want to feel safe in this brave (and scary) new world we’re creating of machines, robots and artificial intelligence. Technological & political trends will definitely influence our profession. This new world will call for new jobs with new skillsets that address the future challenges ahead. Not only the role of CEO and CFO will change due to tech dominance in business also the role of the security officers and risk and security leaders will change. Zukin et all (2018) state “A broader skillset, including communication, change management, and leadership, is required in order to respond quickly and collaboratively to evolving cyber threats” (1)

Putting Systems Thinking into Practice

Kathleen Vangronsvelt, PhD

Finance

Roel Eykens

How leaders can help home workers stay mentally healthy

Many of us have been working from home in an effort to slow down the coronavirus and ensure business continuity. At the same time, we've been taking care of our family, distracted by news updates, worried about the future, checking our smartphone 100 times a day. And at the end of the day, we've been tired, but not always satisfied. Because hey, did our work make sense today? Was what we did adequate?

Gabriel García Márquez has already showed us how to keep love in times of cholera, but how can leaders help their employees stay mentally healthy and productive in times of corona?

As extraordinary as our situation has been, in essence it's been about motivation. How do you keep your employees motivated in a context that is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous?

Science offers the answer. Decades of research in psychology show that you need to fulfill three fundamental psychological needs to achieve autonomous motivation and psychological well-being (Self-Determination Theory; Deci & Ryan, 2000). In other words, you need three elements (the "ABC needs") to create well-being and productivity.

Let's take a closer look at these three elements.

The office environment as a lever for well-being and productivity (Dutch)

Corporate Sustainable Intrapreneurship (CSI)

In this project, we will develop a training program to support and train employees so that they can contribute to the development of the organization within a sustainability and innovation framework.